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Sri Lanka anti-government protests continue despite curfew

10 May 2022

Defying a nationwide curfew in Sri Lanka, several hundred protesters continued to chant slogans against the government on Tuesday, a day after violent clashes left four dead and prompted the...

Sri Lankan prime minister resigns, nationwide curfew imposed after deadly clashes

09 May 2022

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Monday to make way for a unity government to try to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in...

Colombo calm after Sri Lanka declares state of emergency

07 May 2022

Streets in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo were calm on Saturday after the president declared a state of emergency following escalating anti-government protests. Details of the latest emergency regulations...

Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices

06 May 2022

Michael Hiltzik, Tribune News Service The Supreme Court’s now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how...

Housing plan could backfire on PM Trudeau

03 May 2022

Julie Gordon, Reuters The Canadian government’s plan to ease runaway housing prices by rapidly ramping up the pace of home construction risks pushing up construction costs in the near term...

German 10-year bond yield hits 1% for first time since June 2015

03 May 2022

Germany’s benchmark 10-year bond yield hit 1 per cent for the first time since 2015 on Tuesday, as investors braced for interest rates in the United States and Britain to...

MoIAT underlines UAE’s emerging position as a global industrial hub

21 Apr 2022

Dr Sultan Bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), has underlined the UAE’s emerging position and attraction as a global industrial hub during a visit to...

Expansion, growth opportunities for firms in the ICAD discussed

19 Apr 2022

The UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), visited the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD), a major centre for industrial companies in the region that operates under the...

Abu Dhabi Business Centre adds 80 new economic activities in 2021

18 Apr 2022

The Abu Dhabi Business Centre (ADBC), a part of Department of Economic Development (ADDED), announced that 80 new economic activities were added during 2021, brining the total of economic activities...

China cuts reserve requirements for banks to cushion slowdown

15 Apr 2022

China said on Friday it would cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves for the first time this year, releasing about 530 billion yuan ($83.25 billion)...

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